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Lucian Lamar Knight collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1979-0282M

Scope and Contents

Included in the collection are a few speeches, some correspondence, 21 scrapbooks (mostly of newspaper clippings), and a 1920 manuscript, The Waltons of Virginia and Georgia. Scrapbooks cover the following: Knight's 1925 European trip; Joseph Rucker Lamar; Ruth Blair articles on Georgia; governors, such as Talmadge, Rivers, and Arnall; Stone Mountain; Franklin County, Georgia; Harry C. Edwards; and Franklin D. Roosevelt (four books). Also included are an 1862 autograph book of Clara Daniel Knight, Lucian's mother; an 1897 issue of the University of Georgia's Bumble Bee; a Booker T. Washington letter, 1901; certificates, diplomas, obituaries, and postcards; and the photograph albums of Rafael Salas, 1878 - 1895, taken in Cuba, New York, Atlanta, and Chatham County, Georgia.

Dates

  • 1862 - 1951

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Lucian Lamar Knight, State Historian and Librarian, was the founder of Georgia's Department of Archives and History.

Extent

6 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Other Finding Aids

Unpublished inventory available.

Related Materials

Related collections in this repository: The Waltons of Virginia and Georgia. compiled by Lucian Lamar Knight, 1920; additional photocopied and bound scrapbooks; and Knight and Lamar family folders, all in the Reference Library.

Title
Lucian Lamar Knight collection
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Georgia Archives Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States